Newsletter Publisher - J. Slinn Volume No.4 Issue No. 113 Date: April 2016

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Spring

I hope everyone had a great time over the Spring Break when the local schools were closed. And thank you so much to those of you who stayed in town and came to classes at the East Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy! It was fun having larger classes there.

And, while we were away, the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy has undergone some Spring Cleaning & sprucing up!

Hope you like the new look! I think the bigger space and brighter colors will make for more high energy classes!

Master Steven

New Students

In March, the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy welcomed the following new students:

Little Dragons - Aiden Ryu - Ram Suda

TaeKwonDo - Om Shah

- Nikitha Cherukupalli

Black Belt Club

The Black Belt Club will finish up work with the Nunchakus in April. All students should have at least ½ of their original form written out. This is your contribution to the Art of TaeKwonDo! Then we will do Tournament Preparation up until the Battle of Champions on May 7th & 8th.

Rishi Patwardhan joined the Black Belt Club in March.

April Birthdays

Rajveer Nadkar - 1st Saharsh Veeramaneni - 4th Pragathi Mahesh - 6th Joshua Kosukhin - 6th Aditya Haidale - 8th Ved Shenoy - 10th Claire Dumortier - 13th Keya Motiani - 15th Adnan Kokhawala - 16th Rohan Pathak - 16th Jaden Reid - 17th Advaith Hari - 17th Jishnu Gupta - 21st Jose Vera - 21st Hamsika Yadavalli - 23rd Kartik Yadavalli - 23rd Abinav Mundayat - 26th Viabhav Borra - 27th Aldric Benalan - 30th

Upcoming Events

April 7th – Township Spring Session begins – Thursdays through May 26th.

April 16th – Grandmaster Kim’s Tournament in Bethlehem, PA

April 22nd – Passover begins at sundown April 22nd – Earth Day April 30th – Arbor Day Celebration in West Windsor. At

the Ronald Rogers Aboretum at the corner of Clarksville Road and Cranbury Neck Road – at Grovers’ Mill Pond.

May 7th & 8th – Battle of Champions at West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy. No Regular Classes.

May 8th – Mother’s Day May 17th thru 20th – Belt Testing. No Regular Classes. May 27th thru 30th – Memorial Day Holiday – West

Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy will be CLOSED.

Newsletter Publisher - J. Slinn Volume No.4 Issue No. 113 Date: April 2016

V4.113 2 April 2016

Tournaments

Congratulations to the 20 students who competed in Grandmaster Yi’s tournament in March. Aryan Aggarwal, Felix & Sofia Aguayo, Roshan Aiyer, Shaheen Bhattacharya, Satvik Dasariraju, Akitha De Silva, Senan Desilva, Neev Jain, Rohan Jogelkar, Anya Joseph, Aditya & Anika Kapoor, Akhil Pavaluri, Vishvam Rawal, Sebastian Rzeczycki, Anjali Sudarshan, Aryaman & Dhruv Tomar, and Srijan Velury.

You did a great job representing the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy – some of you even managed to win trophies in Forms, which is extremely difficult when you’re competing against Tang Soo Do students. Their forms are very long, complicated and look impressive, so we are very proud that so many of you placed in this competition.

Coming up this month is Grandmaster Kim’s Keystone State Championship in Bethlehem, PA on Saturday, April 16th. We expect between 5 and 10 of our students to compete - best of luck to all. Please be sure to check with Miss Jenn and let her know if you’re going AND tell her your results so that we can keep track of your progress in the All Star Competition!

Then, May 7th and 8th – Saturday and Sunday – will be our next Battle of Champions here at the West Windsor TaeKwon Do & Kickboxing Academy! Mark your calendar now!

Sunday April 17, 2016

1 – 6 pm

Communiversity ArtsFest features over 200 booths showcasing original art and contemporary crafts, unique merchandise and culinary master-pieces from local chefs, plus six stages of continuous live entertainment. Communiversity ArtsFest draws over 40,000 art lovers and fun seekers to downtown Princeton, making it Central New Jersey’s largest and longest running cultural event.

International vs. World Taekwondo Federation

At the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy, we adhere to the teachings and traditions of the ITF. The original International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is a taekwondo organization founded March 22, 1966, by General Choi Hong Hi in Seoul, South Korea. General Choi was the teacher of Grandmaster Ye Bong Choi, Master Steven’s teacher. The ITF practices a style of taekwondo known as Chang Hon taekwondo, though colloquially this is often called ITF-style.

During the 1960s, the goal of the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) was to promote a unified style of taekwondo, as opposed to the nine separate martial arts styles of the Nine Kwans, and to promote the growth of this new martial art around the world. By establishing the ITF, Choi Hong Hi effectively severed his ties with the KTA. Without Choi, the KTA continued to work in parallel, eventually establishing the competing organization, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF). Today, ITF and WTF are the two largest taekwondo federations worldwide.

The ITF was initially formed as a federation of taekwondo associations from the following countries as its founding members: Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, West Germany, the United States, Turkey, Italy, Arab Republic of Egypt and South Korea.

From 1966 to 1972 Choi operated the ITF from within Korea. Due to conflicts with the South Korean government (at the time a dictatorship), in January 1972 General Choi moved the ITF headquarters out of Korea to Toronto Canada. The South Korean government responded by withdrawing sponsorship of the ITF, and established instead the Kukkiwon and the World Taekwondo Federation to continue the mission of taekwondo's globalization. Nonetheless, the ITF continued to grow and thrive as an independent federation.

In 2014, General Choi’s branch of the ITF signed a Protocol of Accord with the WTF, allowing competitors from both federations to compete in each other's tournaments.

Theodore Roosevelt once said,

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who

strive valiantly, who know the great enthusiasm, the great

devotion and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best

know the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst

if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall

never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither

victory or defeat.

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